Celebrating Your 2025 Wins!

by Dec 17, 2025

Have you stopped to pause and appreciate everything you’ve accomplished this year?

Were you able to make some strides on improving your culture?

Did you finally get that one initiative approved that you’ve been working on for a while? Or maybe you finally finished out the initiative you spent all year implementing?

Did you obtain better people analytics so you’re better prepared for 2026?

Whatever your successes, make sure to pause, write them down, and celebrate them!

In fact, we’ve created a year-in-review culture worksheet for you to help. It also includes some space to write in your goals and plan the year ahead. 

As for Civility Partners, we watched teams lean into hard conversations, leaders choose curiosity over judgment, and workplaces shift from stressed and strained to connected and thriving.

 

Your 2025 Wins

Across all of the training programs we delivered this year, our facilitators earned an impressive 4.7 out of 5 average rating from participants on their training evaluations. This feedback reaffirms that our approach resonates across industries and that the tools we provide don’t just sound good. They actually work.

And you know culture change requires several years and a lot of work, so we’re honored that 67% of our clients chose to lean on us for additional projects beyond what they initially hired us for. From leadership coaching to culture assessments to expanded training programs, our clients keep coming back – perhaps because we average 4.8 out of 5 for great communication and 4.4 out of 5 for meeting client expectations on our client satisfaction surveys.

We also delivered many webinars and presentations this year, reaching over 8,500 HR leaders, consultants, and other professionals live – and who knows how many more with replays!

And, through all of our client projects combined this year, we estimate we positively impacted the lives of over 18,000 people! That’s thousands of individuals experiencing better communication, stronger leadership, clearer expectations, and kinder workplaces because their organizations chose to make culture a priority. That’s something worth celebrating indeed!

 

A Heartfelt Thank You

Our deepest appreciation goes out to the HR professionals, leaders, and executives who partnered with us this past year – you courageously committed to creating more respectful, inclusive, and psychologically safe workplaces.

You chose to do some really hard work. To call out the elephant in the rooms of your workplace. To bet on your people with the budget you were given. And to lead your workplace through a positive change.

 

Looking Ahead to the Future

As we step into the new year, we’re feeling grateful, energized, and maybe a tiny bit over-caffeinated. Most of all, we’re proud of the work we accomplished and the partnerships we built.

This year reminded us just how powerful it is when organizations commit to treating people with respect and kindness.

And yes, we’re absolutely ready to do it all again next year! 

Are you ready to join us? We’ve got a fantastic webinar coming up: Company Culture: Addressing Current and Future Trends, on January 28th at 10am PT! Save your spot and join us for a powerful conversation to start the year strong!

Civility is the platform for organizational success—it is absolutely necessary for an organization to reach its goals. Download our Ebook on Seeking Civility to learn more on how to create a workplace free of bullying and abusive conduct.

 

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Catherine

About Catherine Mattice

Catherine Mattice, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the founder/CEO of Civility Partners, an organizational development firm focused on helping organizations create respectful workplace cultures and specializing in turning around toxic cultures. Civility Partners’ clients range from Fortune 500s to small businesses across many industries. Catherine is a TEDx speaker and an HR thought leader who has appeared in such venues as USA Today, Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, and many other national news outlets as an expert. She’s an award-winning speaker, author, and blogger and has 60+ courses reaching global audiences on LinkedIn Learning.  Her fourth book, Navigating Toxic Work Environments For Dummies (Wiley), is available in all major bookstores and where audiobooks are sold.

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